I am considering doing a blog. I am open to "ALL" advise. I would even read a short article on the subject. Seems there is substantial interest in my guiding career (suddenly).
Request suggestions for an Internet "BLOG" host.
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I have used Blogger to make my blogs. Wordpress is a very commonly used blog for businesses. Wordpress can be used more simply or in more advanced ways. I have dabbled a little with Wordpress, but I find Blogger easier, perhaps because I have used it so much.
I found this about blogs, but I do not see Blogger on the list.
https://www.top10best-blogsites.com...hH0yr1eA1loNtHjOm7saAm3BEALw_wcB&gad_source=1
I found this about blogs, but I do not see Blogger on the list.
https://www.top10best-blogsites.com...hH0yr1eA1loNtHjOm7saAm3BEALw_wcB&gad_source=1
Thank You. Who owns the content after I post it. Does anyone know what BLOG can be posted on Amazon.
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Wish I had a good answer but I don't know who owns the content and I don't know about posting on Amazon.
I don't know specifically about HCL, but many places say the poster is the owner, but by using their site the poster gives them perpetual permission to use the content in any way for any purpose.
This is probably spelled out in the website's terms of use, which nobody reads, but by posting on the site you are deemed to have agreed to.
I have a blog on Blogger. Seems to work alright.
Who owns the content that you produce. If I did this, it would only be so it could become a book. Or if it could be serialized on AMAZON.
I got the information, and I deem it to be a fair arrangement.
The bigger issue for me is that I have a lot of good content on several forums that are now out of business. So, I have lost access to good material that I now have to recreate.
If you wanted to do a book i suggest just getting a program to do so and not put it out on internet.
seems several ran into legal issues about short stories and more on various platforms from forums to blogs and more.
seems several ran into legal issues about short stories and more on various platforms from forums to blogs and more.
i will throw this out there and also say i dont know much about it...but i know it seems a bunch of folks use substack these days.
also spotify ..its more than just music..its pods casts what else it does i dont know. but i know a few make money off it.
also spotify ..its more than just music..its pods casts what else it does i dont know. but i know a few make money off it.
substack has been around since 2017 from what i read.
https://substack.com/
look at this screenshot i got for you
https://substack.com/
look at this screenshot i got for you
Just beware of anyone else that swoops in and says they will help you get a book published so you can make millions. They will send a workup of covers and such with your name on it and say they will shop the book around to many publishers for you......then they want some money for expenses...
A friend has been publishing a daily political blog of two pages that he Emails out. He has been thu some trials and tribulations with internet support and hosting but so far he enjoys it and keeps a copy of each blog that he binds using a local office supply printshop.
My wife has put together two photo books which we have published by a local print shop using the same format they use for calendars. We sell them on her website that is hosted by square, the money is in the bank before we send out the books.
We also have a guide permit to charge people to take them around on national forest lands. Right now it is getting interesting since joe rogan has been mentioning her work (even tho others are using it and not giving her credit) and some national types like ancient aliens and the guy from ancient apocalypse are trying to get a piece of the action..
Once published on Facebook or a public place on the internet it is kind of hazy who owns the info. Intellectual property rights are one thing and publishing a copywrited book of any sort kind of gives you some claims.
Do your research and beware people who want to "help out". We have lost several friends who wanted to jump in and run things.
A friend has been publishing a daily political blog of two pages that he Emails out. He has been thu some trials and tribulations with internet support and hosting but so far he enjoys it and keeps a copy of each blog that he binds using a local office supply printshop.
My wife has put together two photo books which we have published by a local print shop using the same format they use for calendars. We sell them on her website that is hosted by square, the money is in the bank before we send out the books.
We also have a guide permit to charge people to take them around on national forest lands. Right now it is getting interesting since joe rogan has been mentioning her work (even tho others are using it and not giving her credit) and some national types like ancient aliens and the guy from ancient apocalypse are trying to get a piece of the action..
Once published on Facebook or a public place on the internet it is kind of hazy who owns the info. Intellectual property rights are one thing and publishing a copywrited book of any sort kind of gives you some claims.
Do your research and beware people who want to "help out". We have lost several friends who wanted to jump in and run things.
You MAY have some luck re-gaining access to defunct websites via the "Wayback Machine". This is a place that has been archiving website snapshots for decades. So you can find out what was on a website that disappeared at a previous time.
I have not used this myself. But I am familiar with the name and generaly what it does. You may want to look into it. I do not know if it archives all user posts on forum websites. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. But you could look into it if this is something you want to pursue.
https://help.archive.org/help/using-the-wayback-machine/
Not all websites are archived. A website can specify that the Wayback Machine NOT archive them (probably by denying robots/crawlers). For example, our HCL forum evidently denies Wayback archiving when I entered it into the search box (but maybe your other old forums did not deny this):
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I think that this is really important. I believe that anything that you put anywhere on the internet is subject to disappear, sooner or later. I have had some stuff disappear from various sites. Even saving data onto storage devices is not 100% failproof.
Someone suggested getting a hard copy printed, but you may also want a digital copy saved to an external hard drive. I had a hard drive that lasted more than 10 years and then failed. I was able to take it to a local computer repair shop and they recovered the files. I have a newer external hard drive, but after that last failure, I am leery about the long term ability to save my data.
I think about the evolution of devices and storage abilities. When I did my primary (early childhood) Montessori training in the mid 1970's, we were given presentations that we had to type up and illustrate. I wore an electric typewriter out doing that course.
When I took elementary Montessori training in the late 1980's, I used an Apple IIe and saved onto floppy disks. I handed in about 100 type written pages plus illustrations a week for that course. That computer and those disks are long gone. There was no ability to save that data that I knew of from floppy to hard disks or hard drives.
Next was newer Apple computers with saving onto hard disks, all of which are also now gone. I was able to save that data on the external hard drive that is now gone, onto my most recent hard drive.
Now I have been using PCs and have been saving my data onto my external hard drive. I have 100s of hours doing genealogical research in old records from Europe that are available on line. I have snipped images and included links to where that information can be found. I have shared that on various genealogy sites, but have also saved it on my external hard drive. I share it out on genealogy sites, such as Ancestry, Find a Grave and Family Search, because others can find it and add their own information and I can access it if the whole business of saving data disappears. I know that many people have accessed my genealogy research. Saying that someone was born in Prague is very different than sharing the image of their birth record and the URL for where to find it online. These records are not necessarily easy to read and decipher, and many don't even try, but they like to see the original records, my translation with the help of native speakers and to use them for documentation.
I know that this is a bit verbose, but just thoughts about the evolution of saving files, data. I am absolutely sure that there are people here who have more knowledge and ideas about saving your files than I do. Sharing our work, no matter the topic, is important, imho. It really is a way to help us recover our own files if everything else fails.
